Gold Hill news., October 28, 1911, Image 7

This he said wtth a sm ile, th at danced Better to hide from the Indian »coats
the graves of our people,
In his e y e s, as the sunbeams
I’-'noe on the waves of the sea, and Lest they should count them and see
bow many already have perished! ”
vanish again In a moment.
Alden laughed aa he wrote, and atill Sadly his face he averted, and strode
up and down, and waa thoughtful.
the Captain continued:
“Look! you can see front this window
Fixed to the opposite wall wan a
uty brasen howltser planted
shelf of books, and among them
High on the roof of the church, a
preacher who speaks to the pur­ Prominent three, distinguished alike
for bulk and for blndlug;
pose.
Steady, straightforward, and strong, Bartffe's A rtillery Guide, and the Com
mentarles of Caesar,
with Irresistible logic.
Orthodox, flashing conviction right Out of the I^ tln translated by Arthur
Goldin ge of London,
Into the hearts of the heathen.
Now we are ready, I think, for any And, as If guarded by these, between
them was standing the Bible.
assault of the Indians;
j Let them come. If they like, and the Musing a moment 1 elore them. Mile*
Standish paused, as If doubtful
sooner they try It the better—
! Let them come. If they like, be It saga­ Which of the three he should choose
for his consolation and comfort.
more, sachem, or powwow,
W ith Illustrations
i Asplnet. Samoset, Corbttant, Squanto. Whether the wars of the Hebrews, the
famous campaigns of the Romans
or Tokamahatuon!"
H ow ard Chandler Christy
Or the Artillery practice, designed for
belligerent Christians.
Long at the window he stood, and
wistfully gazed on the landscape. Finally down from Its shelf he dragge«'
the ponderous Roman,
1 Washed with a cold gray mist, the
Seated hiniiolf at the window, and
cCuprrtgkl, T b« B o b e » M .r r til C u aipaari
vapory breath of the east wind.
opened the book, and In silence
Forest and meadow and hill, and the
Turned o'er the well-worn leaves
steel-blue rim of the ocean.
where thumb-marks thick ou the
Lying silent and sad In the afternoon
margin.
shadows and sunshine.
Over his countenance flitted a shadow Like the trample of feet, proc’atmed
In the Old Colony days, In Plymouth,
the battle was hottest.
like those on the landscape,
the land of the Pilgrims,
Gloom Intermingled w lh light; and Nothing was heard In the room but
To and fro In a room of his simple
the hurrying pen of the stripling.
his voice was subdued with emo­
and primitive dwelling.
Busily writing epistles Important, to
tion.
Clad in doublet and hoee, and boots of Tenderness, pity, regret, as after a
go by the Mayflower,
Cordovan leather,
Ready to sail on the morrow, or next
pause he proceeded:
Strode, with a martial air.
Miles
Standish, the Puritan Captain.
Buried In thought he seemed, with his
hands behind him. and pausing
Ever and anon to behold his glitter­
ing weapons of warfare.
Hanging In shining array along the
walls of the chamber—
Cutlass and corselet of eteel, and his
trusty sword of Damascus.
Curved at the point and Inscribed with
its mystical Arabic sentence.
W hile underneath, In a corner, were
fowllng-pleoe, musket, and match­
lock.
Short of stature be was, but strongly
built and athletic.
Broad In the shoulders, deep-chested,
with muscles and 6lnews of iron;
Brown as a nut was his face, but his
russet beard was already
Flaked with patches of snow, as
hedges sometimes In November.
Near him was seated John Alden, his
friend and household companion.
W riting with diligent speed at a table
of pine by the window;
Fair-haired, asure-eyed, with delicate
Saxon complexion.
Having the dew of youth, and the
beauty thereof, as the captives
Whom Saint Gregory saw, and ex­
claimed, "Not Angles, but Angels.”
Youngest of all was he of the men
who came In the Mayflower.
Courtship
«f ¿ /M ile s
S ta n d is h
Miles Standish
Suddenly breaking the alienee, the
diligent scribe interrupting,
Spake. In the pride of his heart. Miles
Standish, the Captain of Plymouth.
“Look at these arms,” he said, “the
w arlike weapons that bang here
Burnished and bright and clean, as If
for parade or inspection!
This is the sword of Damascus I
fought with In Flanders; this
breastplate.
W ell I remember the day! once saved
my life In a skirmish;
Here In front you can see the very
dint of the bullet
Fired polnt-b'.ank at my heart by a
Spanish arcabucero.
Had It not been of sheer steel, the for­
gotten bones of Miles Standish
Would at this moment be mold, In
their grave
In the
Flemish
11 morasses.”
Thereupon answered John Alden, but
looked not up from his writing:
"Truly the breath of the Lord hath
Blackened the speed of the bullet;
He In his mercy preserved you, to be
our shield and our weapon!”
S till the Captain continued, unheeding
the words of the stripling:
"See, how bright they are burnished,
as if in an arsenal hanging;
T hat Is because I have done It my­
self, and not left It to others.
“ Look at These Arms,
•‘Yonder there, on the hill by the sea,
lies buried Rose Standish;
Beautiful rose of love, that bloomed
for me by the wayside!
’She was the first to die of all who
came In the Mayflower!
Green above her Is growing the field
of wheat we have sown there.
rve yourself, would you be well
served, Is an excellent adage;
I take care of my arms, as you of
your pens and your Inkhorn.
en, too. there are my soldiers, my
great Invincible army,
reive men, all equipped, having each
his rest and bis matchlock,
[hteen shilling a month, together
with diet and pillage,
d, like Caesar, I know the name of
day at latest, God willing!
Homeward bound with the tidings ol
all that terrible winter,
Letters written by Alden, and full of
the name of Priscilla,
Full of the name and the fame of the
Puritan maiden Priscilla!
(T O
BE
C O N T IN U E D .)
High Degree of Devotion
F -d e lity S i o w n b y V ir g in ia
“ D a r k y ” T h a t A n n a ls o f
H is to r y
M xy B e
S e a rc h e d to
M a tc h .
Tha Puritan Malden, Priscilla.
He Said.
Dick was a nigger, Just a Virginia
slave nigger. When a little boy, he
was scullion In the kitchen. He car­
ried the wood and water for the cook,
and scoured the pots and kettles, and
turned the spit when the turkey was
roasting, dipping and basting the
gravy from the pan, and nodding In
hls work after the manner of all small
darkies.
When the war came the carriage
rested In the carriage house, the
horses were taken by the Yankees,
and Dick became my servant in the
army of the south— a gentleman’s gen­
tleman, as he called himself.
No man ever had a more faithful
and devoted follower than I had In
Dick. He was captured twice with me
by Union forces, and each time re­
fused the freedom which his capture
gave him. “I don’t want to be no freer
than I always has been,” be sold on
both of these occasions. Once I dis­
charged him for being drunk. Think
of discharging a slave!
I t was at
Chattanooga, and Dick bung around
headquarters for several days and was
very unhappy. Finally he came to me
with a Bible In hls hsnd and said: “I
wants to swear on this that If you w ill
take me back I w ill not drink a drop
during the war.” He took the oath
and kept it faithfully to the end, at
Appomattox.
When I was captured at Rich Moun­
tain I was 111, and was sent to the
Federal hospital, an Immense tent. I
had not fully recovered when we evac­
uated our position, and wandering
about the mountains in the rain for
two days and two nights without food
sides enduring the exposure, we had
forded the river nine times In the
vain effort to avoid large bodies of the
enemy's troops. The sand had got
Into my boots, and when my socks
were taken off, the skin came off with
them. I was a pitiable object. Dick
stuck to me. He was free now to go
where he pleased, but he never left
me. He was by my cot all day, kept
off the flies from my raw and skinless
feet, and did what he could to allevi­
ate my sufferings. At night he crept
under my cot and took hls only rest
on the bare ground. When I was well
enough to go north with Colonel Peg­
ram, I asked Dick what he was going
to do, now that he was free. He said
that he would go with roe. When 1
told him that was Impossible, hs
said:
"W ell, If I can’t go with you,
I w ill go back to Mis’ Llzle” (my
w ife ).
When he was leaving I gave him
3200 In Virginia Valley bank notes (It
was before the days of Confederate
money), and he walked 263 miles—by
way of Staunton 150, and down the
valley, a hundred and thirteen— to my
home In the valley, and gave my wife
196 of the money.— MaJ. A. R. H. Ran­
son, Late Major of A rtillery, C. 0 . A ,
in H arper’s Magazine.
IS
MADE OF
R U S T LE S S
IRON
Massive Plhar Nsar Delhi Has Re­
sisted Corrosion During a Period
of 2.900 Yeare.
On tho plains of Delhi In India there
stands a massive Iron pillar, nearly
alxty feet In length and weighing
about nineteen tons. This ancient
rolumu Is literally a monument to the
“antiquated” processes aud metallur*
gists that produced It. for tt has re­
sisted the attack of the elements dur­
ing a period of about 2.900 years In
which fully s million times Its bulk of
Iron or steel has crumbled Into useless I
dust. No one would suggest that civi­
lized man return to the primitive and I
laborious metnols by which the Iron j
of this column was made so long ago, (
and besides there are not men enough |
living today to supply our present de­
mands. even If all of them should en­
gage In this type of manufacture. Rut,
granting that the world would pay tor
a limited amount of Iron as "passive"
as thia old Kutub plllarfl It Is very
doubtful whether modern Iron-workers
know how to make It, Probably this
specimen of unusual Iron was the re­
sult of accident rather than design,
as far as Its resisting qualities are
concerned, and It stands today the sur­
vival of the fittest, not so much be­
cause It was Intended to be. as be­
cause tt proved to be. the most last­
ing. For It Is not likely that a proo­
fs a known to give Iron of this kind
would ever have been used so seldom,
since the Importance of a rust reslst-
Jng Iron and steel waa aa much appre­
ciated In those days aa now
No
doubt all the older processes made
Iron and steel which rusted leee— yea,
and some of It very much loss—than
what Is usually produced today, but
there Is a great difference between
this mere excellence and a resist­
ance to corrosion during thirty cen­
turies such aa this column shows.—
Everybody's Magazine.
Jenny Geddes.
Of the memoir»» that gather around
SL Giles' cathedral. Edinburgh, none
Is more cherished by the Scotsman
than the story of Jenny Geddas.
Charles I., determined to force epis­
copacy. commanded that on July 23,
1837. the English church service
should be read In every parish church
In Scotland. On that Sunday a great
crowd gathered in St. Giles, and when
Dean Han nay. In a surplice, began to
read the prayers such a commotion
ensued that his voice was drowned.'
One voice, however, rose above the
din—Jenny G eddes “Out! O ut!” she
cried. “Does the false loon mean to
say his black mass at my lug?*' Agd
seizing her stool she threw It at the
head of the astonished dean. There
followed such an uproar that the ser­
vice had to be abandoned.
In modern and more peaceful times
this event, momentous In Its outcome,
has been commemorated by two me­
morial tablets In the cathedral. One
Is to Dean Hannay, the other, erected
by Lord President Inglis. Is to the
memory of “a brave Scotswoman,
Janet Geddes, who on July S3. 1637,
struck the first blow In the great
struggle for freedom of conscience,
which after a conflict of half a cen­
tury, ended In the establishment of
civil and religious liberty.”
He’s Recuperating Now.
Tw os Friday afternoon, and the ed­
itorial staff were hard at work, when
suddenly the pen of the chief sub­
editor ceased Its Inky scamper.
”1 say," he called, "Is It more cor­
rect to refer to a man who goes up
In a balloon as an aeronaut or a bal­
loonist?”
"Balloonist," growled the special
commissioner, who hod Just drifted
in.
"Baltoonatlc," suggested the story-
ette editor, with a suspicious glance
toward the fighting editor
"Aeronaut's the right word," said
the man who writes the paragraphs,
decisively, "and I can prove It.”
"Nonsense!" growled the staff In
chorus. “You can't!"
"Of course I can!
You eee. It's
this way. When s man goes up In a
balloon he goes up In the sir. But as
a matter of fact he doesn't know
whether he'll remain In the slr-or-noL
See?”
When the curtain fell the fighting
editor was furtively stalking that poor
paragraph editor, and In hls hand he
held his new club
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